Re: Can tbtape be set-up in cron?

In article ED9@iquest.net, tony@iquest.net writes: >I would like to be able to schedule my Informix archives (tbtape -s) >in cron. > >I am currently using Informix-Online 5.0 on a SCO UNIX server. > >If anyone has had success with this I would really appreciate your >assistance. > I have had considerable success with using tbtape -s in a cron job. The *MOST IMPORTANT THING* you can do is to be absolutely, totally, and completely certain that your backup can NEVER NEVER EVER exceed the capacity of your tape device. If it can, running tbtape -s as a cron is a bad idea unless you think of some way you can attach the process to a terminal; this way, when a tape change is required, you will be able to send it a RETURN. At this site we're backup up a 12GB database instance onto a 15GB RAID tape array, and we've have no trouble. Bill Williams E-Mail: bwilliam@jaxnet.com Flames: nobody@nowhere.com -or- redirect to /dev/null +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Disclaimer: My views, opinions, and judgments are my own. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Free scientific inquiry" is a redundancy. | | "Free governmental inquiry" is self-contradictory. | | | | Be sure to read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. It's the world's | | greatest novel, rated #2 of those books readers said had the | | most impact on their lives (NY Times readership poll)! | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+